Quantum Windbag
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Wasn't that filibustered early on?
Get rid of over the road trucking. Replace it with trains and train truckers to work on trains. Then, offload at the destination and truck goods that last bit. We'd be out from under middle east oil in a very few years.
Yeah, its the obvious thing to do but the pubs will never allow anything that could help our economy that much. The R would never allow the money for retraining, for infrastructure and they sure as hell don't want us energy independent.
Now, if there is a way to make it pay China or other countries or, or that matter, the Kochs, that would be a different story. The GObP would love it.
You have no data to back up your claims. What do you think trains run on?
A whole hell of a lot less fuel than the hundreds of thousands of cars they could replace.
And THAT is why the pubpots are against it.
You do know that freight lines actually exist in this country, and that they actually carry trailers when it is convenient, don't you? Or do you live in a world without TV?